Posted on 01/24/2015 4:16:35 PM PST by ifinnegan
Here are artistic representations of two goddesses who are considered the Queen of Heaven and Goddesses.
The Buddhist/Taoist Kuan Yin (or Guan Yin) (觀音)
And
The Catholic depiction of Mary
Note the similarities in representation.
This relates to a thread last week on the leftover, or accretional pagan beliefs or rituals that are still present in the Catholic church.
The Goddess of Mercy is a universal idol/icon in pagan belief systems.
The Mother Goddess is a universal pagan belief and the way Mary has been morphed in to another manifestation of this sort of idolatry is not surprising.
Here are artistic representations of two goddesses who are considered the Queen of Heaven and Goddesses of mercy.
What is real: “Blessed Art Thou Among Women,” the other is a pagan belief.
Yah, shows the devil is very slick in manufacturing counterfeits.
Mary is not a goddess, and do Catholics consider her to be so. I award you no points.
*No
Oh, my gosh, yes, they’re both WOMEN! That’s a shocker.
Once again, Protestant anti-Catholics go out of their way to prove anti-Catholicism is a mental illness.
“Yah, shows the devil is very slick in manufacturing counterfeits.”
Yeah, he did create Protestantism after all as a counterfeit of real Christianity.
Mary is not a goddess, nor Queen of Heaven, yes.
But she is considered these things by some.
I refer you to another thread of Catholic apologia that inspired this post by me.
That thread, “Mary Matters” described her like this::
“her immaculate conception, perpetual virginity, assumption into heaven, her Queenship, and her role in God’s plan of salvation as Co-redemptrix”
Those are properties of a goddess.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3250321/posts
I am not anti-Catholic.
But you seem to be anti-Protestant.
Mary is not a goddess. You start with a flawed premise. It’s contentions like yours that give rise to the saying, “garbage in, garbage out.”
Well he most definitely didn’t create the catholic church.
Interesting. Thanks for the post.
“What is real: “Blessed Art Thou Among Women,” the other is a pagan belief.”
Yes. I think the way Mary has morphed in to the traditional Goddess of Mercy has had some benefit for the cause of Christ in that the ease of transition for pagan cultures to move over to Christianity is strengthened a bit in that there is a familiarity there in this non-Biblical, but emotionally comforting, aspect of how Mary is presented.
But the drawback is obvious as well in that a false theology and misdirected focus away from Christ can become entrenched and be a stumbling block for believers who are Catholic.
None of these are the properties of a goddess in the Christian context because none of it was granted her by or for her own merit. God alone granted and grants Mary her role in His plan of salvation.
> Yeah, he did create Protestantism after all as a
> counterfeit of real Christianity.
“Real Christianity” is probably best defined in the Sermon on the Mount.
Nothing in there about torturing, burning, beheading and drowning “heretics”, or forbidding the people to have the Scriptures in their own language.
The Roman Church tortured and murdered professing Christians just as vigorously as any emperor in the preexisting Roman Empire. Whether you believe their profession was genuine or gave them a relationship with Christ is immaterial.
Now, as far as I can tell, the church in Europe hasn’t done anything like this for about 300 years.
The biggest blow for freedom was struck by the Pilgrims when they left brutal Europe for the New World and started the movement that would give us genuine Freedom of Worship.
“Well he most definitely didn’t create the catholic church.”
I agree. The devil most definitely did not create the Catholic Church. God did.
See my post nine.
You are correct that Mary is not a goddess.
But she is presented as a goddess by some.
See this example: “her immaculate conception, perpetual virginity, assumption into heaven, her Queenship, and her role in God’s plan of salvation as Co-redemptrix”
Those are properties of a goddess.
Just your basic instincts: how many do you think this will convert?
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